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Anwar Freed in Tense Kuala Lumpur

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Jul 17, 2008
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Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was freed from custody this morning in an increasingly volatile Kuala Lumpur without being charged over allegations he had sodomized a 23-year-old male volunteer in his office.

Tension has been rising, with hundreds of people on the street last night in the city’s “golden triangle” Chinese area of the downtown, a…

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